Bibliograph

Acquiring skills, market failures, their symptoms and policy responses, edited by Alison L. Booth and Dennis J. Snower

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Acquiring skills, market failures, their symptoms and policy responses, edited by Alison L. Booth and Dennis J. Snower

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Acquiring skills

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

47008178

Responsibility statement

edited by Alison L. Booth and Dennis J. Snower

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

market failures, their symptoms and policy responses

Summary

Technological change, unemployment and industrial restructuring have highlighted training and the acquisition of skills as a policy issue. There is widespread concern that employees are insufficiently skilled, and it is recognised that this deficiency can have serious economic consequences. The situation is likely to become particularly urgent, as the dramatic increase in the share of temporary and part-time employment in the OECD leads to a decline in the incentives to train. This 1996 book, from the Centre for Economic Policy Research, provides a systematic account of the causes, consequences, and policy implications of failure in training provision and skills acquisition in the industrial world. It explains why the market mechanism leads people to under-invest in skills and examines the empirical outcome of these problems using a portfolio of examples for European countries.--, Provided by publisher

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